There are so many different roles in the project development, and it is so easy to get lost in their concepts and responsibilities.
In our article, we consider three main positions in IT industry: the product manager, the project manager, and the program manager. All these specialists are the key players in project development, so it is important to differentiate their professional hues.
Mobile apps are not born easily into the world.
Behind every successful app is an exhausted team of individuals, who have all been working tirelessly through bugs, crashes, design and usability issues, and test after test after test. They’ve survived arguments and misunderstandings, missed deadlines, and less-than-pleased stakeholders. They’ve sat through meetings where no one agreed on anything, and where problems were mounting but solutions were hard to pin down. Disagreements and miscommunications are a natural side effect of the app-making process.
If you’re thinking about an Agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. You might even call them/use them as product teams. You might wonder about organizing all the work as product work.
Many organizations use functions to organize people. The "Typical Product Development Organization" shows the kind of organization I see most often. That’s why I called it "typical."
If you own a website or mobile app, the best way to find out what’s going to work, what’s currently working, and what’s not of any use, is to use a customer insight and analytics tool for your product. These tools will give you insights related to how your user is interacting with your website/app, what is the workflow and user behavior behind every conversion, and how you can better improve your interaction with your end users.
Before we continue, it’s important to understand that there is no tool available in the market that’s gonna give you foolproof answers on how you can improve your website. At most, they can collect and present user interaction data in different ways, based on which you can optimize your funnels. Nobody understands your business better than yourself and these tools are only there to help you make decisions that are backed by data.
The main message of the retrospective was clear: there are too many interruptions by stakeholders and the senior management. The interruptions impeded the flow of work through the team. Consequently, achieving the sprint goal had been at risk several times in the past. Moreover, the team missed the sprint goal twice recently. Solving impediments as a team has become a necessity.
Learn more on how to tackle impediments as a team by running experiments and iterating on the solution.
A lot of articles address the role of tech leads and engineering managers. One common theme we often come across is how to increase a team’s productivity. But before you focus your energy trying to increase their productivity, you might first want to consider what’s destroying it, to have a sound base on which you can build. Unfortunately, even though Peopleware was published almost 30 years ago, we see lots of teams suffering from huge productivity loss in some (negatively) remarkable ways!
No one expects a programmer to get work done without access to a computer, but there are many companies that expect programmers to get work done without access to their mind. This is equally unrealistic.
It’s a trend for IT companies to go "flat" these days. With so many thought pieces and studies on employee empowerment and self-organization out there, it’s tempting for some CEOs to give it a try.
A "flat" organization is a distributed management system where no one is the boss and employees can make impactful decisions at all levels. Other typical characteristics of such organizations are transparency, continuous feedback, and "fluidity" – grouping task forces around current problems rather than having fixed teams.
Employers and recruiters spend on average 7 seconds reading a resume so if you don’t immediately capture and retain their attention; your resume is going straight in the reject pile. As a Resume Writer, I have noticed these two common mistakes made in my Software Developer clients’ resumes. Take note of my advice and watch the interview invites come rolling in.
A common mistake made by my clients is that they use the same resume to apply to multiple jobs. You should have a different resume for every job you apply to. Job adverts posted by employers and recruiters differ so why would you use the same resume to apply for each job? Your resume needs to closely match employers’ requirements.
How do you pick who works together, who reports to whom, and who exchanges information with whom? Usually, it gets done within a department, within a project team, or based on some other common ground. It turns out we should be focusing on our differences a bit more.
We set out to create a fast but effective way to demonstrate this point: complimentary differences lead to good ideas. Coworkers who have complementary differences have unique skills or perspectives, and they have enough in common that they can communicate effectively with each other.
As programmers, we have come across many blogs. Some of them have helped us to get started with a new technology, some have helped us become more proficient in a certain technology, while a few serve as a helpline when we encounter a certain problem in our code. Since so many blogs are out there, each related to different technologies, it is impossible to rank them according to their content. In this article, we shall discuss the top blogs having content related to general programming languages, UX Design, UI development, testing, and cloud computing.
Whenever a software professional gets stuck somewhere in their code, no matter what programming language they are using, Stack Overflow is the place where everyone can look for solutions. It is an open forum where you can post your queries or resolve queries posted by others.
